Fare thee well — Indigo Girls

From [email protected] Sat Jan 21 01:09:25 PST 1995 Article: 11440 of rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab,rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Path: unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!maroon.tc.umn.edu!schn0170 From: [email protected] (Adam Schneider) Subject: TAB: "Fare Thee Well" (Indigo Girls) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: maroon.tc.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 00:25:22 GMT Lines: 225 Xref: unixg.ubc.ca alt.guitar.tab:38109 rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature:31528 rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic:11440 Status: RO

Nevada Archivers: Ignore This. It's Already In There.

Yes, I've posted this before. I post it every few months. Why? Because it's the best damn piece of tablature I ever wrote down, and Maybe there's some IG fans out there who haven't tried to play it yet. (It's not very hard.)

Also, my girlfriend and I just broke up, so I'm in a lousy mood, and This song has been on my mind a lot lately, so I figured, what the hell. This one goes out to Erin...

Adam

FARE THEE WELL (Emily Saliers)

Actually In F#; Capo 6.

Tune Both E Strings Down To D.

Complete Tablature Is At The End.

[Some of the chord names are kind of strange; this is what happens when you use alternate tunings. Refer to the tab at the end for fingerings.]

Thanks Much To Rich Tebb For The Collaboration On The Tablature.

Intro

Fare thee well, my bright star I watched your taillights blaze into nothingness But you were long gone before I ever got to you Before you blazed past this address

And now I think of having loved and having lost You never know what it's like to never love Dm7(4) C(9)/E F6(9) G - E7/G# Who can say what's better when my heart's become the cost A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from up above

Fare thee well, my bright star The vanity of youth, the color of your eyes Maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-day Or if I'd been older I'd been wise

Too thick the heat of those long summer evenings For a cool evening I began to yearn But you could only feed upon the things which feed a fire Waiting to see if I would burn

Fare thee well, my bright star It was a brief brilliant miracle dive That which I looked up to and I clung to for dear life Had to burn itself up just to make itself alive

And I caught you then, in your moment of glory Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage With a memory so clear it's as if you're still before me My once in a lifetime star of an age

So fare thee well, my bright star Last night the tongues of fire circled me around And this strange season of pain will come to pass When the healing hands of autumn cool me down

An Equal Sign Is A Hammer-On; / Is A Slide.

Play All The Notes On The Lower Three Strings With Your Thumb.

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Intro

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Intro

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Fare thee well, my bright star I watched your

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ taillights blaze into nothingness

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ But you were long gone before I ever got to you

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . Before you blazed past this address And

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . now I think of having loved and having lost You

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . never know what it's like to never love

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . Who can say what's better and my heart's become the cost, a mere

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . token of a brighter jewel sent from above

Alternatively (And Probably More Correct, But Very Hard):

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . token of a brighter jewel sent from above

[Note that in order to do the x5746x chord, you need to use your pinky and ring fingers for the Am7 and D(11/)A, rather than the index and middle fingers. Then you slide up to the next chords, and use the index and middle fingers for the 5 and 4 in the G9.]

Ending: ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . Cool me down....

Or The Ending Might Be Like This:

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Adam Schneider [email protected] Minneapolis, MN Mail me if you want guitar chords for Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls, Suzanne Vega, Lucinda Williams, etc.